A groundbreaking study of how British psychoanalysis shaped democracy, childhood and the family during and after the Second World War.

Michal Shapira is Assistant Professor of History and Gender Studies at Tel Aviv University. Her research deals with the domestic, sociocultural, crossnational and imperial legacies of World War II in Britain and beyond.

Introduction: the war inside; 1. The psychological study of anxiety: from World War I to World War II; 2. Under fire: children and psychoanalysts in total war; 3. The Hitler inside: Klein and her patients; 4. Psychoanalysts on the radio in war and peace: from collective to domestic citizenship; 5. Psychoanalyzing crime: the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency (ISTD), 1931-45; 6. Towards the therapeutic state: the ISTD during the postwar years, c.1945-60; 7. Hospitalized children, separation anxiety, and motherly love: psychoanalysis in postwar Britain; Bibliography.